Paddy thats a fantastic time and a massive improvement from 2009 which I see was another great time and sub 3hrs. I would be happy with 2:59 but I do have another time in my head if everything is 100% on the day. My pb is 3:02 which I did last year and this will be my last chance before the big 50. But there is a lot of people over 50 running sub 3 hrs. I liked the video from last years Dublin Marathon great for watching club mates.

USB not much in RW about the super six but plenty about another group of runners doing other marathons, think your in a couple of photos.

New to runners world and looking for a bit of advice. I have set myself a couple of challenges for this year the Leeds half marathon in May and the Chester marathon in October. I currently run twice a week, a 5-8k and a 10-15k. I also cycle to work 4 or 5 times a week (when it's not snowy/icey), 20-30 miles per day.

I have been looking at training schedules for half and full marathons and they all seem to assume that you are not really doing any other exercise, unless they include a bit of cross training, especially on rest days when in reality I am likely to be cycling on rest days.

Does anyone have any tips on the training schedule and how I should account for the cycling and other exercise?

Morning Andy and welcome. Most people (including myself generally feel running is the best training for running and X training will help your overall fitness and also reduce your chance of injury. There is a cyclist at my work who cycles loads and only runs around twice a week. He does the occasional half marathon at around 1:40 time. This is obviously built around his cycling training, although when I say he cycles loads I mean LOADS.

Another 19 miles d&d today. Was a truly rubbish run but it was my own fault as I did lots of things yesterday that you shouldn't do a day before a long run (hill reps, leg strength and lack of food). We were out and about most of the day and it was either bad food or none. As I'm trying to lose weight I opted for the latter. Bad mistake. Legs were sooo dead it was torture. Anyway, it's done. I just hope the next LSR goes better!

Do you guys take sports drink on the long runs? I wonder if I should - right now it's just water and no nutrition (can't stand gels ) but I think I may have to work on that a bit.

Just tried to drive & couldn't initially open the car door but once it was freed off could do. Managed to get the seat belt on with some discomfort & turn the car on but when it came to moving the wheel had problems turning it to the right so that didn't progress any further. As for typing with both hands that is proving to be very painful even for this short bit so back to the docs tomorrow (should be able to get an appointment fairly quickly) and one handed typing.

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Chickadee,

If I'm doing a lsr of 6 miles or more I will have a sports drink otherwise it's just water.

chickadee at least you know why it didn't go well. I have decided to try and use something on my LSRs mainly because I don't want to suffer stomach problems again like I did at Newcastle. Although I think part of it was the stress beforehand but still I want to try and toughen my stomach up as it is something that I do seem to suffer with.

USB hope your niggle is improving.

Gave the parkrun a miss yesterday as the wind and rain made a lie in a better option and just went out for a steady run later. Two and a half hours this morning in much better conditions. The longest run since Newcastle and felt good. Total 59 miles for the week including my obligatory rest day

Hi Zion - I'm still on my own to be honest. These schedules all look a bit constrictive to me. I do have a vague plan and I make sure I get in some intervals, hills, speedwork, long runs etc. I'm not very good at all that "I must do this session on Tuesday" type stuff. What do you do?

Sounds just like my plan. Only set session is my rest day on a Monday The rest of the time I go by how I'm feeling, the weather to some extent and what life is throwing at me. Like you I have a rough idea of what I want to do but none of it is set in stone.

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